39-year-old woman sentenced faces 40 years in prison for sex with teen boy

Amanda Watkins, 39-year-old former eighth-grade English teacher at Sheffield Junior High School, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, faces up to 40 years in prison after she was convicted of rape and sodomy last week for having sex with a 15-year-old boy in 2009.

Watkins had pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease and her attorney, Ralph Holt argued she suffered from eight mental and physical disorders. Doug McKeown, a Dothan psychologist who performed a court-ordered mental evaluation of Watkins, testified Thursday that while she suffers from a variety of mental disorders, she had the ability in December 2009 to know right from wrong.

Watkins was arrested after Muscle Shoals police discovered her and the teen in a vehicle parked at Covenant Christian School. Muscle Shoals police Capt. Lanny Coan testified that Watkins admitted having sex with the teen in her car. She was charged with second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy. She was fired from her job in January 2010 and did not appeal the firing.

Amanda Watkins’ husband testified that her wife was acting erratically in 2009 before being accused of having sex with a 15-year-old high school student. The unusual behavior began around April 2009.

“She started withdrawing from our family — our daughter, myself and our extended family, like her sister and parents,” he testified while being questioned by Holt. He said his wife would sometimes forget to pick their daughter up from after-school care and that his wife began dressing “like a teenager” and going to bars with a female friend and staying out at night

During cross-examination by Colbert District Attorney Bryce Graham, female teacher testified he never suspected his wife might be cheating when she began going to bars and staying out past midnight on the weekend. “That never crossed my mind.”

Amanda Watkins sister, Tara Massey, testified she had seen never Watkins act as she did in 2009.

A sentencing date has not been set for Watkins. She faces two to 20 years in prison on each charge. Colbert Circuit Court Judge Jackie Hatcher allowed Watkins to remain free on a $15,000 bond while awaiting sentencing.

43-year-old woman accused of sex acts with a 12-year-old boy, her preteen son's friend

Patricia Ann Serrano, 43-year-old woman from Orange County, California, has been accused of engaging in sex acts with a 12-year-old boy, her son's friend.

Serrano of Fountain Valley was arrested Tuesday after the mother of the victim alerted authorities about suspicious behavior between Serrano and her son. Serrano was caught in a locked bathroom with the boy during a Halloween party hosted by his parents. The victim's mother didn't observe physical contact between the two, but according to authorities, Serrano had been kissing the boy. Authorities later found out that Serrano and the victim had sexual relations at least twice: once in her apartment and once in her car.

Serrano knew the victim because he was a friend of her own preteen son.

Serrano is charged with three felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14, according to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney's office. She faces a maximum of 12 years in prison, and she's currently being held on $100,000 bail.

Serrano's apartment had been a popular hangout for other children in the community, and prosecutors fear there may be more victims. Anyone with more information is encouraged to call Supervising District Attorney Investigator Lou Gutierrez at (714) 347-8794 or Fountain Valley Police Department Detective Jesse Hughes at (714) 593-4480.

Brunswick mother accused of giving teen boys alcohol before having sex with them

Shannon Hurley,41-year-old woman from Brunswick, Ohio, has been charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of contributing to unruliness/delinquency of a minor. Hurley allegedly iquored up and had sex with at least two boys at her house during a sleepover.

Brunswick police say on August 27, Hurley provided the boys, ages 14 and 16, with alcohol. Police said the woman's children knew the two boys and had invited them to their home on Barra Drive in August. Police said Hurley plied the two boys with liquor before having sexual contact with them.

According to the police report, Hurley told police she blacked out. She is currently free on $50,000 bond and will be back in court on Monday.

Female Football Booster Had Sex With Son's Underage Teammate

Cherish Arroyo, 35-year-old woman from Maricopa County, Arizona, has been arrested and is accused of engaging in sex with her son’s football teammate, a 16-year-old boy.
Arroyo faces six felony counts of sexual conduct with a minor. When queationed by the police, she told officers she had sexual intercourse and oral sex with a 16-year-old teammate and another young football player in the home she shares with her husband and two sons, who are 16 and 8. When she admitted the sex acts with teen boys, she said she did so because she was “lonesome.”

The 16-year-old victim allegedly began having a sexual relationship a year ago with Arroyo, who also serves as the treasurer of the Copper Canyon High School football team’s booster club and frequently invited the football team over to her house for dinner before games. Both the victim and Arroyo’s own son play in the same team.

Sheriff’s office officials say a victim’s parents tipped them off after discovering “inappropriate communications” between the suspect and their son on Facebook.

Kathia Davis

Kathia Maria Davis, 44-year-old mother from Orange County, California, has been accused of engaging in sex with two boys who are youth hockey league teammates of her son. Authorities say there may be a third victim.

Davis, of Laguna Niguel, was arrested on Wednesday last week at her home on suspicion of having unlawful sex with a minor under 16 and committing lewd acts with a minor under 14, according to Orange County Sheriff's spokesperson Jim Amormino. Both victims were members of the youth hockey team, the Beach City Lightning, which her son also played in. The teams played at hockey rinks in Anaheim and Laguna Niguel.

The investigation began last week after the first victim, who was under 16 at the time, came forward to his mother. According to the mother, Davis hosted parties at her home and served alcohol to underage team members

Davis, a divorced mother of three, is accused of engaging in unlawful sex with the victim, who is still under 18 years of age, for about a year and a half. "We received complaints that she was throwing parties for members of the hockey team and other friends of her son and providing them with alcohol," Amormino said.

Denise Fitch

Denise Fitch, 41-year-old counselor at Keyser Primary-Middle School, Keyser, West Virginia, has pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree sexual assault charges. She was accused of having sexual relations with three high school boys.

Fitch was arrested last february on allegations of the sexual assault of three boys, all under 16-years-old. At the time was alleged that Fitch had had sexual intercourse with two of the boys and performed oral sex on two of the three boys. According to court record, two of the boys were 14 years old and one was 15 at the time of the alleged incidents.

Fitch came to the attention of police after she checked herself into the emergency room of Western Maryland Health Systems on June 24, 2010 with emotional issues and allegedly confessed to a counselor that she had engaged in vaginal sexual intercourse with two of the three males and also provided oral sex to two of the three males.

The incidents took place at Fitch’s residence after the boys had gone there to swim. Allegedly, Fitch also confessed to her ex-husband that she had engaged in sexual acts with the three boys.

On Jan. 21 and Feb. 21, a representative of the DHHR interviewed all three of the alleged victims and all three said they had gone to the Fitch home to swim when the alleged incidents occurred.
The juveniles stated that two of them had gone into the home with Fitch while the third stayed outside to swim. When the third male came into the home, the other two “told him they had sexual intercourse with the defendant....
“(He) stated that he and Denise went into a bedroom, where Denise performed oral sex on him.”

Fitch was originally charged with five counts of third-degree sexual assault; six counts of sexual abuse by a guardian, custodian or person in a position of trust; and one count of sexual abuse. As part of the plea agreement, Fitch only pleaded guilty to the three counts of third-degree sexual assault and rest were dropped.

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Barbara Case Sentenced for

Barbara Renee Case, 39-year-old woman from Virginia, was sentenced in June 2011 to 30 months in federal prison.

Case, married mother with three children, met the 15-year-old boy online in December 2007, when she was 36 but originally portrayed herself as a 21-year-old. She only later told the boy that she was much older. Case met the boy through an online game called Runescape. After five months of sexually explicit conversations online and on the telephone, Case told her husband and three children that she was going on vacation but instead flew to Australia and had sex with the boy numerous times over 10 days at a cabin she rented in Bendingo. Case admitted having sexual intercourse with the boy at least eight times and performing oral sex on him three times. Case also admitted to photographing the two having sex, although the photos have not been recovered.

They were caught when the boy's parents became concerned and contacted police, and reported him missing.

In September 2008 Case sentenced in Bendigo County Court by Judge Tim Wood. She received 16 months in jail, suspended for two years, and was warned that she could serve the time if she committed additional offenses. She was also ordered to register as a serious sex offender.

Case was ordered home to America and on arrival was confronted by federal investigators and charged with one count of travelling to a foreign country to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.


In the US, Case will also be required to register with the state as a sex offender.